Worst incident at Fukushima for two years

The seemingly endless torrent of scandals rushing from the damaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima continues with the news that a serious incident is underway at the stricken plant. Once again we see that Fukushima’s owner TEPCO is utterly unfit to deal with the ongoing disaster.

The source of the leak is a mystery and there is no confirmation from TEPCO that it has been stopped. Right now, TEPCO has denied the possibility that the water is leaking into the Pacific Ocean but we’ve heard these reassurances before. TEPCO’s announcements simply can’t be trusted. The radioactive waste is flowing into the soil and it is just a matter of time that it will be taken towards the ocean by the groundwater.

Radiation levels found in one of the puddles are the highest found in the two and a half years since the reactors were destroyed. According to TEPCO, the leaked water contains 80 million Becquerel of beta radiation per liter. One location measured over 100 milliSievert per hour of radiation dose. The high contamination levels in the water means it will be extremely difficult for humans to clean it up - workers will easily be exposed to more than the maximum allowable limit of radiation.

Children walk along a road which a Greenpeace team found to contain high, unsafe levels of contamination.

Why wasn’t TEPCO monitoring these tanks properly? That such a massive amount of dangerous radiation could escape before anything was done is another damning scandal amid an ocean of damning scandals rushing from Fukushima.

How much more incompetence from TEPCO will the Japanese government tolerate? Why isn’t the company being held responsible? Nobody has been arrested or lost their jobs. Meanwhile, Japan’s Prime Minister Abe tours the world acting as salesman for the nuclear industry. The situation is absurd.

The chilling question now is: what might happen next? We’ve been saying things have been going from bad to worse for years. Things are now going from worse to what? Worser? We’re running out of ways to describe this never-ending nightmare.

It is long past time the Japanese government took over the disaster relief efforts and TEPCO’s executives were held to account. An urgent appeal for international assistance must be made immediately. This is an emergency none of us can afford to ignore.

This article is unintentionally misleading. TEPCO admits that water has been leaking into the ocean at a rate of 300 tonnes PER DAY SINCE 2011! This w...

This article is unintentionally misleading. TEPCO admits that water has been leaking into the ocean at a rate of 300 tonnes PER DAY SINCE 2011! This was NOT a sudden loss of only 300 tonnes of water! Read the link that is provided. Please correct this innocent error ASAP.

Remember Tjernobyl? They had only one reactor blown to crap and it costed them 50 billi...

DAMMIT!!!

@ the japanese government:

Remember Tjernobyl? They had only one reactor blown to crap and it costed them 50 billion USD, 7 months and 500.000 people to somewhat contain the situation.

You are the Japanese. You are known for technological expertise. It's time to use it and stop using TEPCO's labrats.

The whole planet is under risk now beside your own people and when nothing is done soon i can promise you that i will personally come and kick you from behind your desks and give you a shuvle to dig a mountain.

I don't think it can be left to the Japanese government to supervise Tepco or take it away from them - if the Japanese government intended to get ...

I don't think it can be left to the Japanese government to supervise Tepco or take it away from them - if the Japanese government intended to get a grip on the situation it would have taken it out of Tepco's hands a long time ago. Plus the US and British governments - and maybe others - have been helping with the cover-ups and should not be let off the hook either - they have been on some sort of "oversight" commission for months now and you almost never hear a squeak out of it. I read an interview with the woman the Tories put on this commission and I couldn't believe my ears -a totally naïve right-winger who believes that nuclear power is great and that the public need to understand the message better - she seems to live on Planet Zog. At least Greenpeace publishes a blog - but I have been very shocked repeatedly since the accident happened that the left and the green movement give this issue so little priority or seen it as urgent - I know climate change is urgent, but so is the level of damage to genomes - human and other - from what has been emitted so far. let alone what would happen if Fuel Pool 4 went, or the big earthquake happens. Something's got to change.

Forgot to say, last year 72 Japanese activist organisations issued a statement saying it is an international issue and should be treated as one, not left in the hands of Japan. Maybe it is time to revive that appeal and get it more support and publicity, as part of the pressure to get a grip on the situation.

http://www.greenaction-japan.org/modules/wordpress0/index.php?p=96

and more recently:http://www.greenaction-japan.org/modules/wordpress0/index.php?p=110

This morning 03/11/2013 BBC News said that Tepco are going to build a compacted earth wall containing the "groundwater" (nuclear magma/radio...

This morning 03/11/2013 BBC News said that Tepco are going to build a compacted earth wall containing the "groundwater" (nuclear magma/radioactive leachate) from the sea (and all the oceans). Sounds and looks like like the ground is unstable too, the storm-break is in line with the piling, and there were many leaks into the sea like 700 tonnes one day alone that was unreported according to workers at the disaster. I think this wall must be not be made from concrete but from Metal Piles like the Chernobyl Pripyat Plant NB from salt water resilient iron/metal and must surround the entire plant in built sections. It definitely needs to be secured from underneath too by tunnel boring or plate mining. The Chernobyl plant needs renovation immediately too. This situation needs focus. I don't speak much Japanese and it's really dangerous. TEPCO must have insurance (re no funds). What does The US Government, The Japanese Federal Government (thought they were taking control), General Electric, Hitachi and Toshiba have to say for themselves? I am buying a dosimeter because our part of our harbour is radioactive here in Cork and I found a thick barrel when cleaning the beach. Its beyond a joke really. Organisations need to be more objectively regulated and prudent. Please don't explode Tepco Daiichi Fukushima. We were told all nuclear plants had gravity feed water cooling systems.

My fault tree analysis is the following. Sumitomo were involved in this accident and they are a huge Japanese Construction Bank. Were Westinghouse I...

My fault tree analysis is the following. Sumitomo were involved in this accident and they are a huge Japanese Construction Bank. Were Westinghouse Involved? I heard they were. General Electric who made a design flaw are also seriously liable. Then the Federal Japanese Government made Japanese Engineers follow GE's blueprints. And subsequently the Japanese Nuclear Engineers thought they made it tsunami proof by moving the pumps to the fourth floor but left a switch in the basement. I can imagine what the poor workers are going through and hopefully the Yakuza (Japanese Mafia) are not involved anymore but they probably are. PS I love insulated solar roofs with no slates.

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